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3:10 AM ET, February 16, 2015

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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Boehner: I Didn't Want ‘Interference’ From Obama In Netanyahu Speech  —  “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace on Sunday quizzed House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on his decision to invite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before Congress.  —  Boehner invited Netanyahu without consulting …
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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Boehner: Didn't Want White House Screwing up Netanyahu Invitation with Their ‘Animosity’  —  House speaker John Boehner (R-OH) spoke to Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace Sunday morning about what Wallace characterized as the GOP's majority's slow start in Congress and his controversial invitation …
Discussion: Haaretz and FOX News Radio
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Boehner ‘Certainly’ Prepared to Let DHS Funding Expire: Senate Dems ‘Would Be to Blame’
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Liberaland
Nick Gass / Politico:
John Boehner blames Senate Dems for blocking DHS funding
Discussion: Reuters, Hot Air, Bloomberg Business and NPR
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Call Off the Dogs  —  WASHINGTON — I'LL pay for this column.  —  The Rottweilers will be unleashed.  —  Once the Clintons had a War Room.  Now they have a Slime Room.  —  Once they had the sly James Carville, fondly known as “serpenthead.”  Now they have the slippery David Brock, accurately known as a snake.
Discussion: BREITBART.COM and Ed Driscoll
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Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
Bill Clinton's libido threatens to derail Hillary — again
David / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Fox Host Grills Roy Moore: You Already Got Fired Once For Putting Yourself ‘Above The Law’  —  Alabama Chief Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore on Sunday insisted that he had a moral duty to defy the United States Supreme Court if they tried to change God's “organic law” by declaring that LGBT people had an equal right to marriage.
Discussion: FOX News Radio
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Ariel Edwards-Levy / The Huffington Post:
Judge Challenging Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore On Gay Marriage: 'We're On The Right Side Of History'
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Telegraph:
Copenhagen suspect ‘was released from prison two weeks ago’  —  Copenhagen terror attack suspect named as 22-year-old Omar el-Hussein, who ‘had violent past’  —  Terror returned to Europe at the weekend when a suspected Islamist extremist gunned down two people in separate attacks …
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David Cameron / Observer:
Copenhagen shootings suspect was ‘known to police’
Anomaly / FreakOutNation:
North Carolina Paper Issues Correction: Obama Is Not The Antichrist (Whew!)  —  A North Carolina paper thinks Obama is so powerful that he will usher in the Antichrist.  He'll smite us all, just because.  At least they acknowledge that the letter they published didn't identify Obama as the dreaded Antichrist.
Discussion: FOX News Radio
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Hudson Hongo / Gawker:
Correction: Obama Not Antichrist, Just Precursor to Antichrist
Discussion: myfox8.com and Mediaite
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Conservatives not sweating Homeland Security shutdown  —  Hard-line House GOP conservatives aren't worried about a looming Department of Homeland Security shutdown as the deadline for congressional action draws near.  —  Many of the conservative lawmakers who most want to aggressively …
Kay Steiger / ThinkProgress:
Lawmaker Opposes Education Funding Because It Would Go To ‘Blacks’ Who Get ‘Welfare Crazy Checks’  —  Mississippi state Rep. Gene Alday (R-Wells), right, listens to a colleague.  —  CREDIT: AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis  —  A Mississippi state lawmaker said he opposed putting more money …
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Ahmed Tolba / Reuters:
Egyptian Church confirms 21 killed in Libya after Islamic State issues video  —  (Reuters) - Islamic State released a video on Sunday purporting to show the beheading of a group of Egyptian Christians kidnapped in Libya, violence likely to deepen Cairo's concerns over security threats …
New York Times:
C.I.A. Is Said to Have Bought and Destroyed Iraqi Chemical Weapons  —  The Central Intelligence Agency, working with American troops during the occupation of Iraq, repeatedly purchased nerve-agent rockets from a secretive Iraqi seller, part of a previously undisclosed effort to ensure …
Discussion: Antiwar.com
Kyle Smith / New York Post:
How Jon Stewart turned lies into comedy and brainwashed a generation  —  So Brian Williams goes out (for six months) humiliated and derided.  Jon Stewart goes out (permanently, one hopes) the same day, but on a giant Comedy Homecoming King float, with a 21-gun salute from the media, his path strewn with roses and teardrops.
Daily Mail:
Mother of four shot in road rage horror while teaching daughter to drive dies as grieving husband vows to find mystery killer  — Las Vegas mom Tammy Meyers, 44, gave her 15-year-old daughter a driving lesson that triggered an unthinkable chain of events  — A car allegedly followed …
Discussion: FOX News Radio, ABC News and Liberaland
 
 
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